From GPO's Bookstore website: As part of the celebration of the U.S. Government Printing Office's 150th anniversary on March 4, 2011, GPO has published a facsimile edition of 100 GPO Years, originally issued in 1961 on its 100th anniversary. 100 GPO Years takes a chronological approach to GPO history, beginning with a history of public printing in America prior to 1860 and describing events year by year from 1861 to 1961. A section of rare photographs illustrates the progress of "the big shop" from handset type to computer typesetting. This reprint edition includes an index, a new foreword, and a new Colophon about both the original and new digital type fonts.

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Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prolog -- Chapter 1: Colonial Publick Printing: 1639-1789 -- Chapter 2: Free Enterprise Public Printing: 1789-1861 -- Government printing needs -- Congressional proceedings -- Public printing in new capital -- Government printers -- Congressional investigations-1828 and 1840 -- 1842 printing study -- Contract system restored in 1846 -- Events leading to establishment of GPO-1852-1860 -- 1858 investigation -- 1860 investigation -- Chapter 3: 100 GPO Years: 1861-1961 -- GPO in swampoodle -- Proceedings and debates of Congress -- New printing act -- GPO in peace and war -- Postwar operations -- Chapter 4: This Is The GPO -- Heads of public printing: 1852-1961 -- 100 years of growth of government and GPO -- Organizational structure -- Administration and planning-production -- History of building expansion -- Role in government -- Index.